1.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
2.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.
Helen Keller
3.
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.
Witold Gombrowicz
4.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle
5.
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
Erica Jong
6.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
James Fenton
7.
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.
Elliott Colla
9.
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
Felix Dennis